Interesting post, as always. I thought that 2nd paragraph was going to be all about the 1930’s, but I remember the fairly recent story about the bombing of the CHILDREN-labeled building.seajay wrote: ↑Tue Mar 26, 2024 4:05 amFrom Ukrainian military top brass, can't recall the name, TV news instead of being read, some months back and along the lines of if Ukraine loses the whole world loses with highlighting of the number/size of nuclear reactors across Ukraine and the widespread radiation that could arise, a strong inference that the rest of the world should be taking greater steps against Russia/support of Ukraine to avoid major nuclear incidents. Shortly thereafter Zelenskyy was putting out about the risk Russia was inducing against possible nuclear reactors across Ukraine i.e. redirection that if nuclear reactor de-caps did occur then both sides could imply it was the other as being the cause.
You have to remember that the 1930's Soviet engineered famine killed a large proportion of the Ukrainian population and Russia has a history of purging populations. In Mariupol the city was leveled whilst women/children were blocked from leaving - had to spend two months in below ground darkness before taking the risk of moving out of the city under gun-fire. Even a building within which children were massed and had CHILDREN written in large letters observable from the sky Russian planes intentionally bombed the building. There are mass burials of women/children that Russians didn't take as prisoners, just executed. Very much a fight and die, rather than surrender and die Ukrainian mentality. Russians don't just target military, rather they look to indiscriminately exterminate the population via mass bombardment that collectively is little different to a nuclear strike in the damaged caused.
Yes Putin has threatened nuclear if any of Russia is taken,
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I had forgotten, but now I also remember that nuclear scare early on in this war, though the details were fuzzy. Only that there was a firefight around a reactor, and Russia was refusing to let the Ukrainians or even a third party secure the area. They just kept shooting.
I don’t quite know what de-caps means, but chatGPT guesses that it refers to the removal of protective caps.